Unforgiven
Part 3
By Heather
By now he should have his little wake up call.
A year of preparation…and now the day is finally done.
I can’t begin to tell you how good this feels, after so many months of
planning, of staging this.
Carmen will be so proud.
If she only knew…
Well, she will soon…her precious son’s day has finally
come.
I wonder what he will do to her. Will he take the quick route and just end it all?
Or will he punish her for her lies more severely?
I don’t know. My
Danny has gone soft since our days of raising hell. I’m sure I’ll get my payday.
I flick my cigarette over the bridge I’m standing on.
I watch it float down into the darkness, the bright red tip finally
extinguished by the dark, murky water.
Ray
I’ve never seen him like this.
He’s been here for three hours. He walked in, barely mumbled hello, handed me the letter, and
threw himself down on my sofa. That’s
where he’s been ever since. He
finally fell asleep about an hour ago.
I don’t think he was drunk…he didn’t look like he was anyway.
But this letter… I’ve
read it over and over and I just can’t believe it.
I can only imagine what this has done to Danny, if it’s
floored me like this. This
news…changes everything. Even for
me…I hate to think what it’s doing to him…or what it’s going to do to
Michelle.
Danny
My thoughts and feelings are in such a jumble.
I didn’t mean to sleep with Michelle…I meant to confront her.
But I didn’t know what I was feeling, just that old familiar feeling,
the attraction I have always felt to her. I
just feel so confused, angry, maybe a little scared…I don’t know.
I acted on the one impulse I understood I guess.
I just feel weird.
I roll over and stick my hand in my pocket; I feel a twinge
of pain as my index finger brushes the chain. I gingerly pull it out and look at it as it dangles from my
fingers. It winks at me in the
dying light of the day.
Michelle’s necklace…I would have guessed at first glance.
Simple and elegant, a thin stream of intertwined gold links…it looks
exactly like something she would wear.
I know I should be with Michelle right now.
I should be telling Michelle everything right now.
But something is holding me back. I
can’t go to her…not yet.
I think it’s because I know this news could destroy us.
It could tear us apart.
I look over at Ray. He’s
reading the letter again. He looks
up at me. His eyes are sad, and
then he shutters them, in that old Ray way, not letting me see what he’s
thinking. He gives me a half smile
and shrugs his shoulders.
He asks me what I’m going to do.
I really don’t know.
This revelation could destroy us all.